Vol. 2. P. 65. OVER-Influence of the Court on the House of Commons in former times. 68. "These deputies act by, under, and in subserviency to, the constitution, and have not a power above it, and over it." 106. "I dare venture my reputation and skill in politics, by boldly asserting that another vain and unnatural Northern apparition (meaning Russia) will soon vanish and disappear again, like the morning star at the glimmering of the sun, and every one shall ask, Where is it ?" This is a good sample of Whig-foresight! 141. "In all the great empires of Morocco, Abyssinia, Persia and India, there is not amongst the natives such a thing as a tolerable architect; nor one good building unless we except a palace built by a Portuguese for the Abyssinian Emperor; and perhaps there may be in all these vast continents, a few more good houses built by Europeans." With this impudent ignorance could these men write after the best travels in Persia and India had long been published. 183. Advice whom not to chuse at elections. 196. "A bishop was burnt before the Reformation for discovering the world to be round."-This is false. 197. "In the East (if we except China) there is not a glimmering of knowledge, though the Eastern people are, from their natural climate and genius, vastly capable of all knowledge!" 290. It is "not to be expected that men disagreeing in interest will ever agree in judgment." 291. "Let us learn to believe no man the more because he believes himself; since men are as obstinate" (as sincere he should have said) "in error, especially in gainful error, as they are in truth, and more so when truth is not gainful." 302. He wished to make his countrymen "more and more in love with their own government, and passionate for its preservation." Vol. 3. P. 7. A NOTABLE argument that there can be no impiety in sacrilege—or rather church robbery - because " Every thing being His (God's) it is as much his in the hands of one man, as in the hands of another; for let who will have the use of it, the property cannot be altered." 79. "I could name two great parties in England, who when they were out of power, seemed to place the sum of public spirit in entrenching upon the royal authority; and when they were in power, to know no other law but the prerogative royal." 86. "Old landmarks are never to be removed, without producing contests and law suits, which for the most part ruin both parties." 87. "No man of sense and fortune will venture the happiness he is in full possession of, for imagining visions, and throw the dice for his own estate." 93. He wondered "to hear some men of good understanding and unquestionable integrity apprehend any danger to the legal constitution of the Church, and cannot guess from what quarter they can fear it.” A fair political view of the Church Establishment. 94. A direct lie-that "Charles I. by violence destroyed the Presbyterian Establishment in Scotland." 95. He sees that the Presbyterians have taken a leaf out of the Pope's book, and claim the same independence of the Civil Power. 96. His opinion concerning the Test Act -just that of an irreligious man. 96. Presbyterians. The other sectaries who are already possessed of a free liberty of conscience, will never endeavour to put power in the hands of those who will be sure to take it away, as they did in New England, though they went there to get it for themselves. "So that the danger of settling Presbytery in England is a mere chimera. Where by the chance of a long civil war they were actually got in pos session of a power, which during the continuance of it (the war) they disclaimed, they could not hold it even for a few years." 98. If the clergy ceased to be Jacobites, "I dare boldly affirm that all religious distinctions will soon be at an end,-which are now kept up more by party animosities than any essential difference of opinion." 101. "I am so unfortunate as always to think, that a man who is a knave in his private dealings, will never be a saint in politics; and whoever does not do reasonable and just things in respect to his neighbours, relations, and acquaintances, whom he does know, will have little real concern for the titles of princes, whom he does not know." 107. "The starved crew who deal in revolutions are seldom conquerors in politics." 118. "The subjects which men understand least, are generally what they talk of most; and none so much as of government, which almost every man thinks he has talents to direct, and like Sancho, believes he can make a very good viceroy." 119. Power and property will go together-well shown. 125. An excellent view of the state in which the Restoration found the minds of all men. A Prince will always "get a parliament to his mind, upon a revolution, when parties run high, and will do any thing to mortify their opponents." 126. "There is no need of the caballing of different interests, the uniting joint councils, and concerting regular measures to bring about some of the greatest events in human affairs." "In great public exigencies, oppressors (and government which are not oppressors as well), will find no security in the appearing opposition of parties, who, like a pair of sheers, will cut only what is between them, when they seem most to threaten one another." "When nature has prepared the way all things will lead to their proper center; and though men for some time will dally and play with their lesser interests, yet at last they will mechanically fall into their great ones, and often without intending or knowing it." 127. "Liberty may be better preserved by a well-poised monarchy than by any popular government I know now in the world, whatever forms may exist in the imagination. But whether this be true or not, it is certainly true, that no man in his wits will lose the benefit of a very good present establishment, and run infinite hazards to try to get one a little better." 158. the " expence of conscience in swearing " —an item in the price of certain things. 171. Whig versus poacher and free trade in cattle. 173. Yet he argues against companies, and reckons it an advantage that "mutual emulation and contention obliges private traders to sell often for little profit, and sometimes to loss, in expectation of better fortune at other times, but nothing of this is ever done by companies." The thing to be desired is a just price, always. 182. When the South Sea project was in its meridian, "I have heard some persons argue upon the reasonableness of thus having a monopoly of the trade of England, since they were possest of most of the property of England." And he shows that this could not have been prevented. 183. The East India Company, he says— "if it could be carried on with its full swing, 'tis certain it would ease us of every penny of our money, and destroy every manufacture in the kingdom, as well as every man in it!!!" 207. "No men upon earth have been more servile, crouching, and abandoned creatures of power, than the Whigs sometimes have been." "The Tories are often Whigs without knowing it; and the Whigs are Tories without owning it." 209. On W. Penn's trial, one of the King's Council declared, that he now saw the wisdom, necessity, and equitableness of the Spanish inquisition, and thought it would never be well with the Church and monarchy till one was established here. 249. The existing laws against the abuse of the press he thought "very good laws, while prudently and honestly executed." 260. Great ill men-" an estate is some years' purchase less valuable that lies within the influence of such malignant constellations." 276. Effect of sound and action in rhetoric. 285. "I would not suggest so distant a thought as that any of our colonies should ever attempt to wean themselves from us; however I think too much care cannot be taken to prevent it, and to preserve their dependencies upon their mother country." 286. "Arbitrary countries have not been equally successful in planting colonies with VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. it in afresh, repeating this operation till the Travels of the GRAND DUKE COSMO III. in fish is caught." P. 103. He speaks of wolves as common in Ireland, “for the hunting of which the dogs called mastiffs are in great request." Perhaps he supposed them to be more common than they were, hearing those dogs called wolf-dogs. 105. Roberts, Viceroy in Ireland, “being very hostile to their religion, the Catholics experienced additional severity and vigour from him." The Viceroy's profits were estimated at more than £40,000 a year, so that it is considered the most valuable appointment in the gift of the Kings of Europe. The Royal Treasury drew from Ireland about £300,000 a year. 111. Scilly Islands. "The more common buildings have a peculiar sort of covering by way of roof, having nothing but a simple mat spread over the rafters, drawn tight all round, and fixed firmly to the top of the walls. This they say is the sort of covering used very commonly in Bermuda, and it is necessary to renew it every year." 111. "Corn of late began to be scarce, in consequence of the increase of population, produced by the marriages of the soldiers of this garrison with the Islanders; but this has been remedied for some years past by forbidding them to marry." 145. "Their mode of angling here is very different from the common one; for where our fishermen hold the hook still for a long time in the same place, these keep it in continual motion, darting the line into the water like the lash of a whip, then drawing it along a few paces, they throw 180. St. Paul's. "One sees only an huge heap of stones, cemented together by the lead with which the church was covered." 196. The shores between London and Greenwich ornamented with abundance of villas. 197. It was said in London that more than 600,000 persons slept on the water there, which the journalist thought not improbable. 202. The inns in England abundantly provided with every thing that can be wanted. This at Bishop's Stortford the more so, as the landlady boasts of her relationship by blood to the Protector Cromwell. 214. The ceremony of touching for the evil performed every Friday. 357. The Sovereign "the greatest and most powerful ship in the navy, so much so that its swiftness is much impaired by its bulk and height, and consequently it is seldom used. It was built in 1637, by Charles I., at an incredible expence; for besides the vast size of the ship, which is 120 paces in length, it has cabins roofed with carved work, richly ornamented with gold, and the outside of the stern is decorated in a similar manner. The height of the stern is quite extraordinary, and it is hung with seven magnificent lanthorns, the principal one, which is more elevated than the rest, being capable of containing six people. The ship carries 106 pieces of brass cannon, and requires 1000 men for its equipment." 462. A man walking on the water, very much as has recently been done. Travels of IBN. BATUTA. P. 34. DERVISES eating fire, walking into, and rolling in it. our support, and the most excellent patron," (Surat 3) 33,000 times in one day. 153. Lee thinks that Suffeeism is Gnosticism continued down to these times. 161. A Goftar, or Witch, tried by water, according to the English superstition, and not sinking, condemned and burnt at Delhi. The people collected her ashes, believing 37. Lodging provided for the religious enquirers and travellers at every stage in Irak; and bread, meat, and sweetmeats for every one. 12. A sky-stone near the city of Birke, that any one who fumigated himself with in Room. 6. N. El Harawr says of Etna, "one of the learned men of the country told me that he saw an animal like a quail, of a leaden colour, fly out of the middle of this fire, and again return to it. This he said was a Samandal-Salamander." 28. The Orientals, instead of saying that a stream is rippling, say that it links, or forms chains. N. 30. The marks of the foot Dr. Lee thinks are remains of Buddhaism, wherever they may be found. He has not seen S. Remadi's at Spa, nor the devil's in the gorge of Borrodale. 84. El Harawr, who was at Constantinople in the thirteenth century, says, "this city, which is greater than its fame, may God, of his bounty and grace, make the capital of Islamism." 86. In Khavarezm, when any one absents himself from his place in the mosque he is beaten by the priest in the presence of the congregation, and moreover fined in five dinars, which go towards repairing the mosque. In every mosque a whip is hung up for this purpose. This he calls " a very commendable practice." 128. Of great part of Hindostan he says, "there is no necessity for a poor man's carrying any provision with him." 147. The Great Mogul had elephants who were taught to execute men by cutting them to pieces, their fore feet being cased with iron instruments, like knives. Knox says their tusks or teeth were armed for the same devilish purpose in Ceylon. 150. Batuta being in danger from this tyrant, repeated from the Khoran, "God is them was safe from Goftars for that year. 172. Calicut. "The greatest part of the Mohammedan merchants of this place are so wealthy that one of them can purchase the whole freightage of such vessels as put in here, and fit out others like them." Some Chinese junks carried 1000 men ; oars were used in them which may be compared to great masts, worked by twentyfive men standing. They raised garden herbs and ginger in these ships. 185. Adam and Eve are called Baba and Mama in Ceylon. 209. Paper money in China. 215. He a Tangiers man met a Centa man in China, and both wept at the meeting, recognising the countenance, not of a friend or acquaintance, but of a fellow countryman. 226. Eulogy of the reigning Prince at Fez, Gibraltar. ELLIS's Polynesian Researches. P. 31. THE Chiefs in New Zealand tattoo their faces with the marks-the armorialbearings of their family or tribe; their retainers have them in outline only. They are just as distinctive as the plaid in the Highlands. 34. Potatoes now cultivated in New Zealand; and Marsden has introduced corn there. 35. Little children there taught to murder the captive children! 38. The form of government in the Society and Sandwich Islands favourable for |